CHESTERVILLE, Maine (WMTW) – A 6-year-old woman from Maine was hospitalized with 1,000 stitches to her face after a pit bull assaulted her.
“I’m trying so hard not to cry,” Dorothy Norton, the woman’s mom, says.
Norton says the attack took place Saturday in Chesterville inside a next-door neighbor’s home where her child Lily was having fun with a friend.
At the time, the friend’s mom was looking after a female pit bull, according to Dorothy Norton.
“Lily sat at the table and the dog attacked her. She went like this to put her shoulders up, so she did the right thing because the dog was going for her neck. Then the mom came out of the bathroom because the other little girl was screaming, ‘Mom, mom, there’s something wrong.’ And as soon as she walked out into the kitchen, the dog let go,” Dorothy Norton explains.
Lily was raced to a healthcare facility in Farmington however was then flown to a Boston medical center with her moms and dads.
She required more than 1,000 stitches throughout her face.
“She can’t talk at all right now but she has been very responsive today. She’s been looking at me, blinking and telling me what she needs,” Dorothy Norton says.
A GoFundMe has actually been established to help the family with medical costs.
Dorothy Norton says she can’t wait to hold her child once again and she is wishing for a rapid healing.
Chesterville animal control will not discuss the case since it is an open examination, however Dorothy Norton says authorities are dealing with the constable to put the dog down.
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